With due regards, your attention is invited to the DoP&T OM cited under reference whereby all the Ministries/Departments are requested to (i) prescribe Minimum Tenure, (ii) set up a mechanism akin to Civil Services Board for recommending transfer, and (iii) place in public domain the transfer policy. Copy of the OM is enclosed for ready reference.

Further, your attention is invited to 62nd Report of the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice on “Status of Women in Government Employment and in Public Sector Undertakings with regard to the Service Conditions, Protection and against exploitation, Incentives and other related Issues”. Para 17.2 of the report reads as under:-Read:-Framing a Transfer Policy in all Cadres- DOP&T O.M. 02.07.2015

“17.2. While expressing concern about the welfare of single women who have been recruited in Government Jobs, Members of the Committee were of the view that when such women are given postings, it should be mandatorily ensured that they are placed at stations closest to their Hometown/place of their choice. The Committee, accordingly, desires that this pertinent factor should be kept in mind by the organizations/Departments while giving postings.”

Therefore, you are requested to issue necessary directives to the Department of Defence, Department of Defence Production, Department of Reaserch & Development of Ministry of Defence to frame the transfer policy in all Cadres keeping in mind the recommendations of above committee in respect of Single Mothers/Single Women.